{"id":17561,"date":"2017-11-15T07:55:59","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T15:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=17561"},"modified":"2024-03-05T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T00:36:27","slug":"real-time-map-traps-new-zealands-predators","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/blog\/real-time-map-traps-new-zealands-predators","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s War on Predators"},"author":931,"featured_media":17591,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","castos_file_data":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[81,801,1051],"tags":[1301,1291,1311,151],"industry":[],"esri-blog-category":[478412],"esri_blog_department":[478222],"class_list":["post-17561","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capability","category-operational-intelligence","category-real-time-gis","tag-biodiversity","tag-conservation","tag-field-work","tag-iot","esri-blog-category-wildlife","esri_blog_department-conservation-and-environment"],"acf":{"video_source":"","video_start":"","video_stop":"","short_description":"Connecting traps to maps provides a tactical advantage for conservationists in their battle against New Zealand\u2019s predators.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<strong>Interactive Maps and Traps That Talk Provide a Tactical Advantage<\/strong>"},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Right","content":"Key takeaways\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Traps that communicate when triggered help New Zealand gain ground on predators.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>A near-real time map provides an interface for action that saves time and money.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Modern mapping proves to be a valuable tool in broader community engagement.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"New Zealand has always been home to many unusual species of birds and lizards, but too many have steadily lost ground to human settlement and the mammals that humans introduced. Their plight has grown increasingly dire due to growing numbers of three predators\u2014rats, stoats, and possums. At stake is the country\u2019s biodiversity, including many unique animals, not least of which is the flightless Kiwi that serves as the nation\u2019s symbol.\r\n\r\nAlready, more than 40 species have gone extinct. Seeing the expanding threat, the government of New Zealand has declared an ambitious goal of ridding the country of all three of these predators by 2050. On an island larger than Great Britain, that\u2019s a bold objective and it will require advancements in science and technology to pull it off.\r\n\r\nExperts from Ethos Environmental, a small conservation company that has been at the forefront of this fight, have taken a new tact that\u2019s seeing great promise. They have deployed sensor-equipped traps, connected these sensors to a network, and then configured a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/en-us\/what-is-gis\/overview\">geographic information system (GIS)<\/a> to display real-time signals from the traps. When the traps catch something, the map lights up with the trap\u2019s exact location.\r\n\r\n\u201cUp until now, the greatest number of traps any one person can check each day has been 50,\u201d said Scott Sambell, manager of Ethos Environmental. \u201cNow that we only have to check the traps that have caught something, a single person can manage thousands of traps.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":17801,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<strong>Living Laboratory<\/strong>\r\n\r\nThe government\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.govt.nz\/predator-free-2050\">Predator Free 2050<\/a> program provides the overall framework and guidance for the ambitious plan. It invests in innovative predator control tools and techniques, and connects communities, businesses, philanthropists, scientists, and local governments who are making the vision happen.\r\n\r\nEthos Environmental gained a great deal of expertise on the problem of predators by working on a variety of different conservation contracts. The organization has also been hard at work bashing through the bush to eliminate rats from the Glenfern Sanctuary on Great Barrier Island.\r\n\r\nThe Glenfern Sanctuary is a 240-hectare parcel on a peninsula that has provided a testing ground for a variety of approaches. It is one of many private conservation efforts. A two-kilometer predator-proof fence was erected to cut off the peninsula in 2008, and then the hard work of ridding the predators within, and stopping anything from swimming around, began.\r\n\r\nThe sanctuary was started by the late Tony Bouzaid, a conservationist and legendary yachtsman, who had a vision to restore the land and to share the experience of native wildlife. The Sanctuary is the result of 20 years of hard work with over 10,000 native trees planted, an extensive trail network, and a swing bridge that allows visitors to climb into the crown of a 600-year-old kauri tree.\r\n\r\nShip rats eat the eggs of birds, and they multiply quickly. Stoats, a member of the weasel family, were brought into New Zealand to address a rabbit problem but have had a devastating impact on birds, reptiles and invertebrates. Possums eat an incredible amount of native bush every night, reducing bird habitat and food sources. Getting rid of these three predators will have a restorative impact on the forest, and leave a legacy for future generations.\r\n\r\n\u201cI\u2019ve been setting traps and laying bait to try and capture the last rat, possum or stoat in the forest for years,\u201d Sambell said. \u201cOver time, I\u2019ve realized how incredibly inefficient we have been.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe conservationists tackling this country-wide problem work collaboratively and share what works. What has already become clear is that, for each species, a small number of traps is proving to be effective. Ethos Environmental helped to develop and test a SmartTrap system that is now manufactured and marketed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.econode.nz\/\">EcoNode<\/a>, with Scott Sambell as co-founder. EcoNode makes sensors for each of the proven traps so that this remote sensing solution can be deployed to catch any animal."},{"acf_fc_layout":"quote","image":17611,"text":"Suddenly we had this sensor that was so sensitive that she was picking up things that our other tools couldn\u2019t see.","author_name":"","author_profession_organization":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<strong>Can Do<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAs residents of a remote island country, New Zealanders pride themselves on their ability to make do and innovate with the materials and solutions at hand.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe have a term in New Zealand about the No. 8 wire methodology,\u201d Sambell said. \u201cAll of the stock fences are made with No. 8 wire. If you break a fence, break a tractor, or something goes wrong, the saying is that any New Zealander can fix anything with No. 8 wire and a pair of pliers.\u201d\r\n\r\nThe EcoNode team researched and deployed a wireless network, built a maker lab with electronic components and a 3D printer to create their sensor, and have harnessed the online software-as-a-service GIS platform ArcGIS Online to put their sensors on the map.\r\n\r\nThe ability to create maps, and apps, has been a force multiplier for both Ethos Environmental and EcoNode.\r\n\r\n\u201cI was in a meeting with the Glenfern trust board, and they expressed a wish to have an app to provide a self-guided tour of the sanctuary, because it\u2019s hard to find tour guides and it\u2019s expensive,\u201d Sambell said. \u201cWhile they were talking, I was writing the app, and I was able to show it to them online before the meeting was finished.\u201d\r\n\r\n<strong>Sensing to Control<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAt one point, workers at Ethos Environmental thought they had captured every rat in Glenfern Sanctuary; however, they were still seeing rat footprints on the ink cards in their tracking tunnels. This problem led to the first purchase of a sensor in the form of a specially trained conservation dog, Milly the Terrier.\r\n\r\n\u201cSuddenly we had this sensor that was so sensitive that she was picking up things that our other tools couldn\u2019t see,\u201d Sambell said. \u201cIt was kind of defeating.\u201d\r\n\r\nMilly\u2019s sensitive nose helped the sanctuary rid itself of ship rats (rattus rattus), and she soon helped Sambell discover that they also had Polynesian rats (Rattus exulans) on the property. While these are smaller rats with less of an impact, he decided to rid the sanctuary of these as well.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt just blows people away when I can show them how many rats there are in the forest,\u201d Sambell said. \u201cBecause I have a rat detecting dog, I know better than anyone how many rats there are, and their devastating effect on birds.\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":17811,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<strong>Living Map<\/strong>\r\n\r\nGlenfern Sanctuary has proven to be a very helpful laboratory to get a handle on the complexity of the predator problem. The work there has attracted many scientists who are finding the predator-free practices and species conservation efforts helpful for their research.\r\n\r\nThe sensors have the added benefit of providing excellent data on where, when and what has been caught. By making that data available, scientists are able to conduct analysis to learn additional details regarding predator behavior, which in turn helps advance New Zealand\u2019s predator-free goal.\r\n\r\n\u201cWhatever we design has to be scalable,\u201d Sambell said. \u201cWe\u2019re not talking about Glenfern here or even Great Barrier Island, we\u2019re always talking about all of New Zealand.\u201d\r\n\r\nOne of the primary benefits of the live map is to make the problem real to all New Zealanders.\r\n\r\n\u201cA lot of people don\u2019t get out in the bush,\u201d Sambell said. \u201cThe average person looking at the live map will see the millions of rats moving throughout the forest across New Zealand and will understand what is happening.\u201d\r\n\r\nWith GIS, the \u2018Digital Earth\u2019 vision is becoming a reality, and is driving community engagement, shared understanding, and collaboration at all levels of society.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"http:\/\/arcg.is\/1f91fD\">View a story map<\/a> about how Ethos Environmental has become smarter in solving the predator problem in New Zealand. Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/software\/arcgis\/arcgisonline\">ArcGIS Online<\/a>, the collaborative and flexible online GIS that forms the foundation of Ethos Environmental\u2019s live trap-status map and community engagement."},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<em>The concept of a \u2018Digital Earth\u2019 has inspired citizens, scientists, policy-makers, academics and businesses from around the world to work toward creating a truly global network of systems to share information on issues critical to planet Earth. The concept of \u2018Digital Earth\u2019 is built on the idea that individuals, local communities, national, and international agencies can share environmental, scientific and spatial information seamlessly, freely and in near-real time. It\u2019s only now, with developments in technology and geographic information systems (GIS), that many organizations, large and small, are organically creating that very \u2018nervous system\u2019 for the Earth. This three-part series highlights organizations in the Asia-Pacific region, from small environmental conservation groups in New Zealand to international agencies such as the United Nations, that are using spatial technology to realize this global vision of interconnectivity, collaboration and shared understanding.<\/em>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":25891,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/ralphnaderradiohour.com\/good-news-for-the-environment\/"}],"references":null},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Real-time Map of Traps Aids New Zealand&#039;s War on Predators<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Real-time map of traps provides a force multiplier that makes New Zealand\u2019s goal of going predator free within reach.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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